ExamName___________________________________MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.1)Awareness of the ________ linking overseas production with U.S. consumption has led some to beconcerned with the working conditions in the Asian factories in which their clothing is made.A)division of laborB)comparative advantageC)producer servicesD)transnational corporationsE)commodity chains1)2)The new international division of labor is characterized byA)increase of the United States as an industrial producer.B)new high tech manufacturing and producer service specializations in the periphery.C)decentralization of manufacturing from the core.D)all of the aboveE)both A and B2)3)The modern world system had its origins in late fifteenth-century Europe, and was especiallyassociated with a rise inA)exploration.B)consumer demand for imported products.C)food production.D)manufacturing.E)art.3)4)Railroads originated in this country:A)GermanyB)BritainC)FranceD)CanadaE)United States4)5)Nineteenth-century railroad development in the United StatesA)was paltry compared to that of France.B)made the California Gold Rush possible.C)was slowed by the Napoleonic wars in Europe.D)helped consolidate the Manufacturing Belt.5)16)Neo-colonialismA)has been supplanted by globalization.B)is generally not considered exploitative.C)is not connected with transnational corporations.D)allows core states still to have significant influence over periphery states.E)all of the above6)7)The concept of import substitution is best characterized asA)changing suppliers of imported goods.B)purchasing imported goods to replace locally produced goods.C)manufacturing goods that had previously been imported.D)exporting and importing the same type of product.7)8)The first agricultural revolution was characterized by all of the following exceptA)uprising of rural populations against urban landholders.B)sedentary agriculture based on burning plant matter as a way of returning nutrients to thesoil.C)new methods to process, prepare and store foods.D)occurred in Fertile Crescent, South Asia, East Asia, Mesoamerica and the Andes.E)domestication of animals such as sheep and cattle.8)2World Map9)Countries 26, 27 and 28 are all part ofA)Southeast Asia.B)Sub-Saharan Africa.C)North America.D)the Middle East.E)North Africa.9)10)The core-periphery framework for explaining the world system is based on geographic divisionsthat have emerged as a result ofA)competition between countries.B)competition between political perspectives.C)private economic competition.D)competition between religious groups.E)both A and B10)3World Map11)The European country nearest to Morocco isA)Portugal.B)France.C)Canada.D)Spain.E)Ghana.11)12)Which of the following regions was the last to be discovered by Europeans?A)West AfricaB)North AmericaC)South AmericaD)JapanE)Australia and New Zealand12)13)After WWII, the world system periphery was referred to as theA)Last World.B)First World.C)Second World.D)Third World.13)14)Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the early world empires?A)colonializationB)distribution of wealth from the upper classes to the lower classesC)agriculturally based economyD)use of religion and/or the military to control subjects14)15)With the emergence of the world-system, European ________ reshaped the world.A)comparative advantagesB)transnational corporationsC)languagesD)sportsE)merchant capitalism15)416)By the fifteenth century, centers of capitalism in the developing world system included all butA)London.B)southeast China.C)Cairo.D)Stockholm.E)New York.16)17)The first to appreciate the practical importance and usefulness of geography were theA)Germans.B)Greeks.17)18)In the years after World War II, this country emerged as the hegemonic power:A)BritainB)JapanC)Soviet UnionD)United StatesE)China18)19)Which of the following centers of early global civilization was not linked by the Silk Road?A)ChinaB)northern IndiaC) Eastern MediterraneanD)Central Andes and MesoAmericaE)All of the above were linked by the Silk Road.19)20)Plantations established to exploit labor and resources in the periphery are geared towardA)industrial crops like cotton, flax and sunflowers.B)high value luxury items like sugar and cocoa.C)mixed fruits and vegetables like tomatoes and apples.D)staple crops like corn and potatoes.E)any and all of the above20)5World Map21)The capital city of country #58 is . . .A)Dacca.B)New Delhi.C)Tokyo.D)Accra.E)Dakar.21)22)The first agricultural revolution and the subsequent transition to food-producing minisystemsresulted in all of the following exceptA)barter and trade between communities.B)higher population densities.C)more settlements.D)non-agricultural specializations.E)industrialization.22)23)World empires are organized around aA)subsistence production economy.B)reciprocal social economy.C)redistributive-tributary social economy.D)capitalist social economy.E)all of the above23)624)The phrase "Jihad vs. McWorld" is intended to symbolize the struggle and tensions betweenA)the local and the global.B)religious fundamentalists and secular capitalists.C)nutritious/traditional food and unhealthy/processed food.D)traditionally based cultural values and pop culture/shallow materialism.E)the North and the South.24)25)European industrialization began in the ________ century.A)seventeenthB)fifteenthC)fourteenthD)eighteenthE)sixteenth25)26)Internet access isA)increasing at slower and slower rates.B)most frequent in upper income households in core countries.C)about the same for most regions of the world.D)limited to fewer than 150 million people.26)27)The influential nineteenth century geographers von Humboldt and Ritter saw geography as anintegrative science showing the interdependencies betweenA)places.B)people and nature.27)28)Which of the following was NOT a hearth area?A)Ganges floodplainB)Fertile CrescentC)Arizona and New MexicoD)Anatolian plateauE)Scandinavia28)29)In a sense, globalization has been around for a long time. For example, trade routes haveconnected the Europeans with ________ for over a thousand years.A)ChinaB)the Americas29)30)The first agricultural revolution set the preconditions for early world empires byA)highlighting the benefits of import substitution and comparative advantage.B)introducing colonialism and imperialism.C)eliminating the need for hunting and gathering.D)enabling an increase in population densities & trade between minisystems.E)all of the